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Ratzenfutz     2015-07-18 14:47:49
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@ Admin:

I've encountered some weird behaviour with a solution of mine:

After answering problem #72 correctly, I was told that I'd received 0.0 points - instead of 7.02!?!?

Is there a way to resolve that?

Rodion (admin)     2015-07-18 18:47:12
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Hi! You receive 0.0 if you have already solved this problem. :)

I see in the "Mess Hall" that you really have two successful submissions:

14:35:47 18-Jul-15       Ratzenfutz  I'm proud to tell I've just solved Funny Words Generator!

14:34:40 18-Jul-15       Ratzenfutz  I'm proud to tell I've just solved Funny Words Generator!

14:33:05 18-Jul-15       Ratzenfutz  I'm sorry to say I've failed Funny Words Generator... :(

So you get points at 14:34 but of course not at 14:35 - do you think this may be the case?

Ratzenfutz     2015-07-18 19:01:42
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I don't know. I had to try several times because my connection had timed out. The first time it said wrong answer. And when it finally came up with the success note it said 0.0. Funny though, I never changed the code. So I don't even know why I received that wrong note in the first place. Maybe some faulty connection. Who knows.

Rodion (admin)     2015-07-18 20:08:31
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> I had to try several times because my connection had timed out

I see, then it may happen that you submitted solution and it gained you points but when your browser started to load "success" page the connection failed. Then you've tried to resubmit (and this time success page show 0.0 points)...

I think we can make two changes to interface to avoid bewilderment:

  1. In the profile page points for every solved task could be shown (for case anyone will want to copy them to excel and sum up to check).

  2. "Success" page need not show 0.0 on the next successful attempts.

Right now code there looks like

if problem-solved-first-time then
    show the "price" of this problem
else
    show 0.0

so that it do not affect your total score - instead your score is recalculated by separate process after few minutes (just summing up "prices" of every solved problem).

And if I'll change it to simply show "price" of problem without any conditions this would be just simpler...

I'll take care of these changes - thank you for explaining your doubts! I understand that the scoring system now is somewhat unclear... :)

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